What are the important features of video streaming platform

Hi, the most important feature depends on your needs based on the product and your platform.

For example, if most of your audience is on mobile, you'll need to think about:

support user generated video uploads:

• Optimized uploads (ie, depending on network availability, restrict upload size etc)
• Resumable uploads if you want to go a bit further

For the user streaming side (or for a view-heavy product where content is mainly consumed by the users and uploaded by creators):

• Make sure your video assets are in the right format (ie, size as well as encoding so that they support features like seeking, subtitles, different bitrates)
• You'll probably also need a CDN for content distribution.

However, in the middle of content uploading and distribution, you will need a good content processing pipeline that can transcode between various formats, generate thumbnails etc. PS: That's where our product fits in https://www.indiehackers.com/product/mediamachine

We also touched upon the broad requirements for creating a streaming platform in our blog :) https://mediamachine.io/blog/video-transcoding-in-2021#how-does-video-transcoding-fit-into-developing-a-user-friendly-content-pipeline

Good luck! And please don't hesitate to reach out if you want to bounce off any ideas, we'd love to chat with other people in the video space.